As Marin expected, after receiving the threatening letter from Marin, Charles II, Duke of Guedes, was so angry that he was so angry that he was so angry that he wanted to pick peaches like Marin, and he wanted to hold a knife to chop Marin.
However, in the end, Charles II calmed down and chose to surrender...
Why? Because at this time the Duchy of Gedes was unable to compete with Marin. At present, the army of Gedes, the local and Westfriesians, was only more than 10,000 people, which was completely incomparable to Marin's 40,000 troops.
Moreover, in terms of combat effectiveness, Marin's army defeated the 50,000 elite Bossa coalition with 20,000 Swiss mercenaries. Although the army of the Duchy of Gedes also took the route of Swiss mercenaries, its combat effectiveness was still not as good as that of Swiss mercenaries. Therefore, they were unable to compete with Marin's army at all.
Therefore, it is inevitable to give up West Friesland. Even if Charles II doesn't want to give up, Marin can fight. Instead of doing so, it is better to withdraw his seven thousand troops and preserve his strength.
For those more than 10,000 Saxon prisoners of war, Marin offered 300,000 gold coins, which was obviously far lower than the actual value. However, Charles II, Duke of Gedes, could not refuse. Because while Marin sent him a letter, he had sent troops to advance westward and occupied the southwestern border of West Friesland, blocking the four thousand Gedes army and more than 10,000 Saxon prisoners of war that had been reclaimed in the west of West Friesland. Even if the Duchy of Gedes wanted to transfer prisoners of war back to his country, his retreat was cut off by Marin's army.
Moreover, Charles II did not dare to order the killing of prisoners. Not only did this be inconsistent with the rules, it could easily arouse Marin's anger. The 20,000 troops entering West Friesland were not vegetarians. If they were angry, the seven thousand Geders soldiers who stayed in West Friesland would have no way to survive...
After thinking for a while, Charles II could only choose to swallow his anger and withdraw the person first. No matter what, he could barely get back 300,000 gold coins. If he started fighting, he would have nothing, and maybe Marin would take advantage of the situation to attack the local area.
Therefore, Charles II was very reluctant to accept the conditions proposed by Marin and decided to voluntarily give up Westfriesland and hand over the more than 10,000 Saxon prisoners of war to Marin in exchange for a low-priced ransom of 300,000 gold coins.
Before the autumn harvest began in October, the two sides completed the final transaction. The Gedes army evacuated Sifries and handed over more than 10,000 Saxon prisoners of war. As promised, Marin paid the ransom of 300,000 gold coins to the other party.
Next, Malin turned his attention to the autumn harvest...
In fact, the crop growth of East Friesland accelerated due to the use of potassium fertilizers, and autumn harvest began in mid-September.
However, in addition to East Friesland and the farms in the Principality of Oldenburg, Schleswig and North Münster, the newly obtained farmland in West Friesland, Bremen and Jutland areas only started to harvest in October. Therefore, the autumn harvest will be busy for a long time.
Moreover, what excited Marin was that the newly acquired West Friesland, Bremen and Jutland would provide him with a lot of land.
There was already nearly 100,000 Yugram's cultivated land in the West Friesland region, and the total of nearly 110,000 Yugram's cultivated land that Charles II, Duke of Guedes, used more than 10,000 Saxon prisoners of war to reclaim, totaling nearly 110,000 Yugram's cultivated land.
Moreover, most of these arable lands were ownerless. Why? Because the eight Barons in West Friesland were basically killed. Most of the knights under the eight Barons were killed. Therefore, most of the 110,000 Yugram lands are actually ownerless now. Originally, these were occupied by Charles II, Duke of Gedes and his subordinates. However, after the people of the Duchy of Gedes withdrew from Sifriesland, these lands were basically in the hands of Marin.
According to statistics, except for more than 10,000 Yugrams, the land of the 110,000 Yugrams belonging to the church, the other land close to 100,000 Yugrams has been seized by the people of Gedes. But now, all of the 80,000 Yugrams are belonged to Marin...
Of course, Marin did not take all of these lands alone. Because he also had to reward part of the land as military achievements to the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions. However, because Marin robbed too much land this time, he only needed to divide a small part to complete the reward. The remaining big head was still Marin's...
The situation in Jutland is similar to that in West Friesland. According to the agreement, the Denmark King Hans took away six or seven hundred nobles from all over the place. Therefore, the approximately 90,000 Yugram land on the 20,000 square kilometers of land in Jutland was also all subsidized by Marin.
Although the land area of ​​the Jutland Peninsula is large, the Danes have a tradition of developing animal husbandry. On such a large land, there are only 90,000 yugrams of cultivated land, which is not as good as West Friesland, which is only more than 5,000 square kilometers. However, there are many grasslands on the Jutland Peninsula, which are very suitable for grazing. The most important thing is that except for the tens of thousands of Yugrams that belong to the church, the rest belongs to Marin...
As for Bremen, the situation here is a little more complicated. Although Archbishop John Rod Val of Bremen accepted the land replacement plan for interests and took away the owners of the Val family (because they could occupy more land in the Stendar region). The other bishops of the Archbishop of Bremen who accompanied him also took away many tribesmen and left a lot of unowned arable land. However, the archbishops of Bremen who had cultivated more than 60,000 Yugrams were cultivated, and in the end there were only 30,000 Yugrams.
Why? Because Archbishop John Rod Val took away only the main high-level officials of the Archbishop of Bremen, and did not take away all the priests. Most of the middle and lower-level priests remained in the Bremen area.
These people, the family behind them, and the church occupied more than 30,000 Yugram's farmland. Marin was really not very active for these people. Moreover, it was very good to get half of the farmland.
Fortunately, the Archbishop of Bremen is vast and there is still a lot of land that has not been reclaimed. As long as Marin can recruit enough people, the province of Bremen, with an area of ​​up to 6,000 square kilometers, some of them can be reclaimed. In addition to the high cost of developing swamps, the reclaiming of other wastelands is relatively convenient, as long as you have labor... This may be a problem for other princes, but Marin can spend a lot of money to recruit poor people and refugees in the southern region... Although it is very expensive to bring those refugees to their own territory, Marin is least afraid of spending money. After these people came, they farmed for Marin, because of advanced agricultural technology and fertilizers, which can quickly bring more profits to Marin...
In order to ensure the smooth autumn harvest, Marin sent most of the troops to the fields to help harvest rye, leaving only a few thousand elite troops to ensure safety.
Chapter completed!